SOLONEWS/MONDO/ Second Champs-Elysees attack suspect hands himself over to Belgian police

Second Champs-Elysees attack suspect hands himself over to Belgian police

Loredana Fabrizio |22 Aprile 2017, 12:36

At least one police officer was killed, two wounded and the attacker neutralised in the shooting, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV and the French Interior Ministry.

Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told BFM television that the terrorist stepped from a auto near the Franklin Roosevelt subway station and opened fire on a police vehicle.

President Francois Hollande said he was convinced the "cowardly killing" on the Champs Elysees boulevard, in which the assailant was himself shot dead by police, was an act of terrorism.

He had previously also been flagged as an extremist to French authorities, said the police sources.

The gunman has been identified by police but they will not officially reveal his name until investigators determine whether he had accomplices, according to the Paris prosecutor.

The gunman pulled up next to the police vehicle, took out an automatic weapon and started shooting, New York Post quoted Interior Ministry Spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet, Efe news reported. The vote is on Sunday, and today is the last day of campaigning, and everyone has called it off to, you know, hold.

The Islamic State claimed that it had carried out Thursday's attack on the Champs-Elysees.

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As the terror attack unfolded, police blocked off key roadways in the heart of the French capital and told people to avoid the area. I heard six shots, I was afraid.

Officers also conducted a search at the home in eastern Paris of the dead attacker. Several restaurants on this avenue that attracts many tourists have closed their doors.

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